The Invention of GPS (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Hugo Fruehauf, one of the inventors of GPS and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, tells the surprising story of how GPS was invented. Plus: learn about how planning cheat days could make your next goal easier to achieve.

Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals by Mae Rice

Planned "Cheat Days" Can Help You Achieve Your Goals, According To New Study | Bustle https://www.bustle.com/articles/155981-planned-cheat-days-can-help-you-achieve-your-goals-according-to-new-study
How To Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions, According To Psychology | Research Digest https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/01/13/how-to-achieve-your-new-years-resolutions-according-to-psychology/
How cheating can help you reach your goals | BBC https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180216-yes-cheat-a-tiny-bit-on-those-goals
Coelho do Vale, R., Pieters, R. and Zeelenberg, M. (2016), The benefits of behaving badly on occasion: Successful regulation by planned hedonic deviations. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 26: 17-28. doi:10.1016/j.jcps.2015.05.001 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jcps.2015.05.001
Why 80 Percent of New Year's Resolutions Fail | U.S. News https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2015-12-29/why-80-percent-of-new-years-resolutions-fail

Additional resources from Hugo Fruehauf:

The Global Positioning System. (2019). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. https://qeprize.org/winners/the-global-positioning-system
Elizabeth, Q. (2020). The QEPrize Judges introduce GPS [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CH_fmO-QO8&feature=youtu.be
Hugo Fruehauf. (2019). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. https://qeprize.org/winners/hugo-fruehauf
Cozzens, T. (2019, December 3). GPS pioneers honored with Queen’s award at Buckingham Palace - GPS World. GPS World. https://www.gpsworld.com/gps-pioneers-honored-with-queens-award-at-buckingham-palace/
Hugo Fruehauf Official Website http://hugofruehauf.com/
Space weather effects on Satellite Communications :: Space Weather Center. (2020). Rra.Go.Kr. https://spaceweather.rra.go.kr/effect/english/03_07

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff.
0:07.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you'll hear the surprising story of how GPS was invented from a very special guest, Hugouehoff, one of the inventors of
0:15.1	GPS. But first you'll learn about how planning cheat days could make your next
0:19.6	goal easier to achieve. Let's set us fast some curiosity.
0:23.2	People almost never keep their New Year's resolutions.
0:26.2	About 80% of the time, we don't save the money or eat the healthy diet that we planned
0:30.6	on.
0:31.6	Oddly, that might be because we try too hard.
0:35.0	According to a recent study, the secret to sticking with a long-term resolution might be, well, breaking it.
0:41.0	Now, there are two ways to break a resolution. One is by giving
0:45.8	into a craving which can feel like a loss of control. The other way is by
0:50.1	planning cheat days in advance where you choose to behave in a less restricted way.
0:56.0	This second way, which scientists call planned hedonic deviation, can actually make us feel more
1:01.5	in control of ourselves,
1:03.1	not to mention happier and more motivated.
1:06.2	Researchers found this in a study that compared two diets.
1:09.6	Both allowed participants to eat the same amount,
1:12.1	but they allocated the calories differently.
1:14.9	The straight goal striving diet
1:17.0	allowed participants the same number of calories every day.
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